Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Grabbing the beaver

If you've ever surfed the web and found places like the forum at DumpsterSluts dot com. Then you may have found out that the majority of these amateur pictures are stored on the servers hosted by the ImageBeaver corp. ImageBeaver is one of those free hosting companies which makes it's money on advertising and selling subscriptions to utilize their huge amount of porn related material, pictures aswell as videos.

You can freely upload and link to your own ImageBeaver galleries. And you freely browse every new gallery which is submitted to ImageBeaver, but only today's galleries, or...to be absolutely specif, you can view todays and yesterdays. If you want to go further back or search then you have to pay for a subscription.

Downloading from ImageBeaver can be a hazzel, there are popup's and ad's scattered all over and to get a single picture takes up to 3 clicks and full page loads.

So if you want what ImageBeaver has to offer you either have to pay or to utilize the free part. You can try out the free part if you visit this link hxxp://www.imagebeaver.com/browse.php?photos=Yesterday. On the other hand, you can go for a different approach. And the approach is the following.

  1. Go download the programming language Perl from ActiveState and install it.
  2. Copy the Perl script below to your text editor ( ex. Notepad ) and save it as c:\scripts\imb.pl
  3. Click Start->Run and type cmd.exe
  4. Type: cd \scripts and hit return.
  5. Type perl imb.pl and hit return.
  6. The result should be that the script visits the ImageBeaver site and begins downloading every free image of yesterdays galleries. Normally it amounts to something between 18-24 galleries and a mb size of ~60Mb.
If you can follow what happened in step 1 - 6 above then you will have figured out that you are running a Perl based program (the one below) and it is a download script designed for ImageBeaver so that you do not have to click all the pages and watch all the ad's etc.

So, provided that you have success with the above then you just need to run the script every 24 hours or so to continously get new fresh ImageBeaver porn every day.

Luckily Windows can help you do this, ie. running the script every 24 hour. You can obtain this luxury by clicking your Start->Accessories->System Tools->Task Scheduler. There you can create a task which runs every 24 hour and you type in the command to execute every 24 hour. And you have the commands above. You can make it easier for you if you make a command file. A command file for running the script above will look like this:

c:
cd \scripts
c:\Perl\bin\perl.exe c:\scripts\imb.pl

Write the above in Notepad and save is as c:\scripts\imb.cmd. And put c:\scripts\imb.cmd into the Task Scheduler. And remember to start the Task Scheduler after you have finished configuring your task, otherwise it will not run - naturally.

Here you have the Perl script:



#!C:/Perl/bin/perl -w

# Scripe coded by pwd
# Date: 7th September 2008
# Revision #1
# Handles: http://www.imagebeaver.com/browse.php?photos=Yesterday

use strict;
use POSIX
qw(ceil floor);
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Archive::Zip
qw( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS );
use File::Find;

print "ImageBeaver Script v2008-09-07 by pwd.\n\n";

my
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);
my
$theYearMonth = sprintf("%04d-%02d-%02d",$year+1900,$mon+1,$mday);;
my
$pageurl = "http://www.imagebeaver.com/browse.php?photos=Yesterday";

my
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->timeout(40);
$ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0');
my
$thePage = "";

my
$commandArgs=0;

foreach my
$ARGV (@ARGV){
$commandArgs = 1;
$ARGV =~ m/(.*?).html?/;
$theYearMonth = $1;
open my $readfile, '<', $ARGV or die "error trying to load: $!";
binmode ($readfile);
my
$size = -s $ARGV;
print "Loading: ", $ARGV, "\n\n";
sysread($readfile,$thePage,$size,0);
close($readfile);
getIt
($thePage,$theYearMonth);
}
if
($commandArgs==0) {
print "Downloading: ", $pageurl, "\n\n";
$thePage = getHTTPPage($pageurl);
getIt
($thePage,$theYearMonth);
}
exit;


sub getIt {
my
($page,$yearmonth) = @_;
$page =~ tr/\r\n\t//d;
$page =~ s/ / /g;
my $monthfilename = join "",$yearmonth,".html";
open my $overwrite, '>', $monthfilename or die "error trying to overwrite: $!";
print $overwrite $page;
close $overwrite;

mkdir($yearmonth, 0777);

$page =~ m/(\/photos\/[^"]+\.html)/;
my $oldSubPageLink=$1;
my $clipNo=1;

while ($page =~ m/(\/photos\/[^"]+\.html)/g)
{
if (($oldSubPageLink ne $1) || ($clipNo == 1)) {
my $url = join "","http://www.imagebeaver.com",$1;
$oldSubPageLink = $1;
my $subPage = getHTTPPage($url);
while ($subPage =~ m/(http:\/\/www.imagebeaver.com\/photos\/[^\d]+\d+_\d+[^]]+\.html)]/g) {
$url = $1;
my $picPage = getHTTPPage($url);
$picPage =~ m/thepic[^\/]+([^"]+)/;
$url= join "","http:",$1;
$url=~m/([^\/]+.jpg)/;
my $filename = $1;
my $dirName = sprintf("%s - %02d",$yearmonth,$clipNo);
if (getHTTPFile($url,$filename,$dirName,$yearmonth) != 100) {
chdir $dirName;
unlink $filename;
chdir "..";
print " (incomplete, deleting...)\n";
} else {
print "\n";
}
}
$clipNo++;
}
}
}


sub getHTTPPage {
my ($myurl) = @_;
my $mypage = "";
my $response = undef;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new('GET', $myurl);
$response = $ua->request($req);
if ($response->is_success) {
$mypage = $response->content;
return $mypage;
} else {
$response = $ua->request($req);
if ($response->is_success) {
$mypage = $response->content;
return $mypage;
} else {
print STDERR "ERROR: Unable to download $myurl\n";
die;
}
}
}


sub getHTTPFile {
my ($zipurl,$filename,$folder,$yearmonth) = @_;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new("GET", $zipurl);

$filename = lc($filename);
my $storefolder = $folder;
my $percentage = 100;

chdir $yearmonth;
mkdir ($storefolder, 0777);

my $expected_length;
my $bytes_received = 0;

chdir $storefolder;
if (-s $filename) {
print STDERR "\r $storefolder\\$filename already exists, skipping";
chdir "..";
return $percentage;
}

# check if file exists and has a non zero size

open my $overwrite, '>', $filename or die "error trying to overwrite: $!";
binmode $overwrite;
my $oldpercentage = 0;

my $res = $ua->request($req,sub
{
my
($chunk, $res) = @_;
$bytes_received += length($chunk);
unless
(defined $expected_length) {
$expected_length = $res->content_length || 0;
}
$percentage=100 * $bytes_received / $expected_length;
my
$progress="";
if
(floor($percentage) != floor($oldpercentage)){
print "\r";
$oldpercentage=$percentage;
if
($expected_length) {
$progress = sprintf(" (%d%%) %s\\%s %d",100 * $bytes_received / $expected_length,$storefolder,$filename,$bytes_received);
print "$progress bytes";
}
}
print $overwrite $chunk;
});
close $overwrite;
chdir "..";
return floor($percentage);
}

Finding Luba

Luba, one of the fine wonders of the world, would quite a bunch of people claim. And they are not all wrong.

Luba is a model and a photographer, and now married with with Petter Hegre, who is the owner of the fine art site Hegre-Art.

Luba has perfectly shaped b(.Y.)bs and a hourglass body figure like a 50's pin-up. Pretty admireable. And she was/is still young.

But this article is not as much about Lubas as it is about finding her. Finding in csv specific terms. So MG has prepared a small video of easy ways to find Luba and even a way to bringing it all together.

Think of this as ways to make your own custom collection of everything you like.



Download the small video clip. It is 6:38min and is meant as inspiration.

Get the tools used a http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html

PS: A note from ash1: "Luba is not all that good in bed!"








Luba and Petter

3 New

Short news today. Three new triggers has been made available on Vixen Grimoire, and are now considered official.

The usual suspects are:



Fist Flush - Perfect Gonzo ( hxxp://www.fistflush.com )
Super Glam - Glam Cash ( hxxp://www.superglam.com )
My Wifes Hot Friend - Naughty America ( hxxp://www.mywifeshotfriend.com )

SGLAM has existed for some time, but never as official. It is yet to be seen if the previous model specific csv will be used or if they'll be re-modded to follow some other ordering.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Do you want to know when your harddisk dies ?

Now under normal circumstances, MG would never advertise for a commercial product unless it has some greater importance to the community. Which is why MG wants to give HD Sentinel some awareness.

HD Sentinel is one of those harddisk programs which can tell you some information about your harddrives, and it even manages to monitor certain areas in regard to your harddrives and provide you with information about the S.M.A.R.T. state of your drives.

All this seem very nice, but unless you can actually see what you can do, you get little impression of how it could help you. So look at the partial screenshots below and judge for yourself wether or not HD Sentinel may be a tool for you.

After you have installed HD Sentinel, then your icons in Explorer changes slightly. You can see a bit more about capacity and status.




Explorer window view


You also get some additional information in your system tray. And although it doesn't look as sleek as DTemp then it does show you some extra information about the common health of the harddrive.
If you start the main program you get a huge chunk of additional information available. There are 7 tabs per drive where as the overview gives you infor about the number of days the harddrive has been running and the number of remaining days it has to live in before it dies, IF the current rate of degradation continues. The information is gather mainly from your harddrives S.M.A.R.T. tables.

Overview shows possible lifespan of your harddisk

If you click the S.M.A.R.T. tab then you get the nitty gritty information. There you can find information about the real drive status, how many time it has been powered on and failed. How many times it has tried to re-allocate a bad sector and failed/succeded. This may be new information to you, but present harddrives has some extra space sectors where bad sectors gets re-allocated to when it finds a bad sector. And if you run out of spare sectors then your drive is in real bad shape. If the drive has too many errors then performance begins to suffer and so on. If you want to know the detailed meaning of all the S.M.A.R.T. attributes and how to read them then look here: Wikipedia - S.M.A.R.T.

Detailed information on harddrive

Switching to the 2nd last tab gives you some performance information which are update live. So you can let the windows stay open and then begin reading and writing to/from the drive to see how good performance is and you can even try the performance between your drives/controllers.

Performance in real-time

And HD Sentinal handles RAID volumes also, and SCSI and all that jazz.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Chrome or Plastic ?

Chrome which is Google's answer to an Internet browser has arrived recently. And being in the csv business it is something which has to be tested.

To start with the most impotant thing -

  • Does it handle username/passwords directly in the URL ?
    YES IT DOES, without any tweaking needed.

  • Is it easy to clear bwowser data and information ?
    Yes it is.

  • Does it render the webpages fast ?
    YES!, extremely fast. Faster than anything else out there.

  • Does it handle downloads in a brilliant way, like Firefox ?
    No. Firefox is by far much better handling and overviewing multiple downloads.

  • Is it a porn browser with all safety and privacy needed ?
    No. Absolutely not, it will show the most visited pages immediately when it starts unless you specifically use the Incognito Mode actively.
If the above bullets are enough for you to decide wether or not to use Google Chrome then you're fit to go. If you need a bit more information then read on.


Look'n'feel
The look and feel of the browser is good, some of the best I have seen around. The webpage area is simply larger due to the face that the title bar of the window is now gone. Furthermore the rendering engine in Chrome is extremely fast. Way faster than Firefox or Opera (I will not mention IE, because IE is the absolutely slowest at the rendering part). The interface is nice and intuitive, all your most visited pages are placed right to your disposal when you start the browser - no need to find a Favourites or click a button like with IE and FF. The bookmarks are also displayed right at the starting page so everything you need is right where it should always have been and better. Menus are light and intuitive. There are far less configuration options than present in IE or FF, wether or not this is a good thing depends on the kind of internet user you are.

The downside of the ultra fast web page display is that clickable areas, ie. pictures, direct links etc. are not clickable right away. Now right away means that you should be able to click any link before the page has finished rendering. That is not possible with Chrome. On a large gallery page with 360+ pictures and a ton of direct links like MET or ONTE then you will have to wait slightly before everything becomes clickable in the right places.

Chrome also has minor problems displaying VG like it is suppose to look. Chrome tends to enlarge portions of the webpage repeatedly.

Conclusion
Is Chrome your new porn browser ? And the answer is NO. So what is for? Well, the current target Chrome user seems to be my mother and other people who wants and good and nice looking browser which does the mainstream job of browsing and reading. With the upcoming porn-mode of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (call InPrivate) and the ditto feature in the next Firefox then it would seem that these two still are the best candidates for the job, although we still have to actively see if InPrivate and Firefox's counterpart is better than Chrome's Incognito Mode. And with Firefox's dTA plugin then IE is left behind in the dust.

Challenger: Google Chrome ( http://www.google.com/chrome/ )

Winner: Mozilla Firefox


InPrivate: The InPrivate option of Internet Explorer 8–quickly dubbed “porn mode” because it also hides one’s illicit browsing history–prevents computers from tracking your online whereabouts or browsing habits, which is much-needed information for web sites that deliver targeted advertising.


Wednesday, September 3, 2008

CSV News

The resent rumors tells us that the csvs for BAMADVDx ( Fine Art Erotica - Bare Maidens) will stop being maintained by the end of this month, furthermore the csvs for LSGMDVDx ( Fine Art Erotica - LSG Models ) will also stop being maintained by the end of this month.

This had to happend as subs end and that is the way of life. Which also means that the csvs are up for grabs by a new maintainer.

One the bright side of life two other intresting triggers has seen the daylight. The first of is ONSEDVDx, which is a newer site in the Only Tease Group. Ie. Only Secretaries. Click on some sample pictures below



Click to enlarge


Another newcomer is David Nudes ( Fine Art Erorica - David Nudes ). Which seems like a promising addiiton to the FAE group. Click the sample below for larger pictures.


Click to enlarge


The short news is that:

  • DDG (Digital Dream Girls) now turned DVD.
  • The WSC group has been updated with triggers.
  • The Brazzers group seem to grow little by little.
  • The DDF Group has had a new addition of Sex Euro Cup 2008.
  • The W4B ( Fine Art Erotica - Watch 4 Beauty ) group have gotten 4 addition AMBDRMDVDx, MONDRMDVDx, NIKDRMDVDx and VERDRMDVDx.
  • TPV ( Teen Pink Videos ) is new with both vids and pix.
  • Diesel Action Cash has been updated with Alice Woner Bang
  • Girls Out West is new

Monday, September 1, 2008

Feed the masses csvs

This article is about a feature of VG which enables you to automatically get information about new and updated csvs. You basically do not have to do anything besides having your box on.

The feature is called RSS and it is an abbrevation for Really Simple Syndication. Which basically is a way to gather information from the internet into an easier, more readable and direct way.

RSS is sometimes referred to as Web Feeds, and what basically goes on is that the server(s) you subscribe to with RSS automatically updates a piece of information which your Internet Browser (yes it is RSS enabled) or your RSS program picks up and serves to you when you see fit, and without all the jazz and hazzel of you having to go to the website and click through a few pages to get the information.

RSS is most often free of charge, and in this case it is totally free, nobody will charge you anything.

So, back to business. If you want to subscribe to the RSS feed from VG then you have to have access to the site. And if you do, then you should click the link called RSS link.



The next which happends is that your browser changes to the webpage shown below and there you can see the way IE presents VG's RSS feed. On this page you click Subscribe to this feed. Which makes IE remember that you have a feed you have subscribed too and that IE should check for updated news ever now and then (you can change the schedule later).


You will then be presented with a small dialog box which enables you to put your RSS feed subscribtions into different folders. Default is choosen in the example.


You've now subscribed and the web page changes slightly. There are 3 things of interest besides that you now can see the last 50 updates to csvs on the VG site.

The first thing is the Star in the upper left corner, it is where you can re-find the RSS feeds you've subscribed too - so, it is like your RSS favorites.

The second thing of interest is the green arror pointing to the right, alongside the attachment marker next to the text retreive. Both are clickable links which enables you to save the csv in question to your harddrive.

The last thing of interest is the possibility to change the settings (properties) of the VG feed.



If you click 'View feed properties' then you will be presented with a dialog like shown below. There you can change the frequency of how often IE check wether there has arrived new stuff on VG - default is every 30mins. DO NOT SET IT LOWER, it is simply unnessary.

You can also configure IE to automatically download the attached files, in this case the csv file itself. DO NOT CHOOSE TO DOWNLOAD ALL ATTACHMENTS, IT WILL KILL THE SERVER. And that will force the prople at VG to either remove the RSS feed or something nasty.



That is all, VG information and csvs directly to you, without all the other stuff and need to browse around.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Interview with the Hungarian Bear

MG has covered a bunch of different aspect of collecting, maintaining and such. Today we're glad to present you with an interview with SunCo.

SunCo is one of better known maintainers whom have become an often talked about subject, because of his choices and doings, through the last 10 or so years. SunCo is the beginning author for VG collection series like: MET-Art, Hegre, Galitsin, ArnoldSK, Domai, FemJoy, Harris, Slastyonoff, TSM and others.


Today SunCo is in cyber exile for reasons you can read in the interview.

Happy reading.



[MG]
SunCo, you are one of the old timers in this business, how long have you been in collecting?
[SunCo] i've been collecting for 10 years now
[SunCo] i started with modem and downloading sites etc.
[MG] 10 years, that is a long time, have you ever felt like quitting all of it?
[SunCo] never
[SunCo] in the past 2 years i spin on a bit lower level
[SunCo] but still collecting
[SunCo] and i will do
[MG] impressive, pure dedication. You have also maintained alot of csvs and you started some famous collections.
[MG] which collections are you most proud of?
[SunCo] all of them
[SunCo] i'm proud all of them
[SunCo] i cannot decide
[SunCo] especially now, when the good old nice colls look really old and bad compared to the new collys
[MG] You mostly do Fine Art Erotica collections, has it been an easy job?
[SunCo] nope
[SunCo] I've started to make csvs for 2 reasons
[SunCo] 1 nobody had them and i made them
[SunCo] 2 the "official" csv wasn’t good and i made better
[SunCo] .)
[SunCo] for the FAE group
[SunCo] nobody had them before and they were nice and unique sites and in the beginning they were not nude enough for the main channel or they did not like them
[SunCo] so i CSV’d them
[MG] You started MET and HEGRE among others, how do you feel about the increasing Gb size of the contents today?
[SunCo] one of my eyes is laughing and the other is crying
[SunCo] I’m always happy to have more stuff
[SunCo] but in the real life
[SunCo] ppl cannot check, watch and enjoy that much amount of stuff
[SunCo] i remember how happy we were with 100 pieces of 800x600 pics
[SunCo] but now with 2000 pieces 4000x3000...
[SunCo] it starts to become too much a bit
[MG] True. Is it true that you have not watched most of your stuff?
[SunCo] i watch
[SunCo] i always watched at least 1 time everything i get
[SunCo] that was the reason why i stopped some collys
[SunCo] i saw that they are unable to show me anything new
[SunCo] always the same girls in the same positions etc
[SunCo] became boring.
[MG] how much time do you spend on collecting on a daily basis, or shall I ask: how much time does your box spend on collecting every day?
[SunCo] my box is up 24/7
[SunCo] always downloading or uploading something
[SunCo] and as a big download is finished i always sort and watch them
[MG] You decided to go into exile a little away from the main channels, why is that?
[SunCo] ?
[SunCo] why i left the main channel?
[MG] yes
[SunCo] i had many reasons
[SunCo] those colls i collected, i collected from the sites and i made the csv, so they needed me, not needed them
[SunCo] the other reason is
[SunCo] when sometimes i needed something
[SunCo] it was really pain in ass to get it
[SunCo] slow or incompletes
[SunCo] i made my own channel to be together with my FRIENDS
[SunCo] and the big reason is
[SunCo] i did not like the ops behavior
[SunCo] some of them were really a bitch and God maniacs
[SunCo] i earned much in the real life and in the net life and irc
[SunCo] and did not want someone to bitch on me
[MG] Completeness is something you've accomplished a lot of. Many times you have managed to get stuff others could not get, are you simply better?
[SunCo] as i said
[SunCo] i always watched what i got
[SunCo] and then i sometimes saw that the official csv was not good
[SunCo] i really spent my time on it
[SunCo] I’m not better
[SunCo] surely not
[SunCo] just i really spent my time on it
[SunCo] and of course
[SunCo] for me, it was a bit easier to get into those nice sites
[SunCo] but i don't want to advertise that
[SunCo] in this stage i always helped to the others too
[SunCo] with how to make csvs
[SunCo] or pw's etc
[MG] You made a channel, with some friends, as you said. Have you ever experienced that people have left or disappeared or even died?
[SunCo] all of them
[SunCo] i got new friends
[SunCo] many for long time
[SunCo] some for short time
[SunCo] i don’t like those who come when they need something and then leave
[SunCo] we are small channel. Enough to be friendly group
[SunCo] of course i lost members and friends too
[SunCo] some of then just never came back
[SunCo] some of them quitted
[SunCo] and we had some ppls gone with death accidentally
[MG] One of your friends Joker1962 passed away some time ago, how did that make you feel, when loosing a friend like that?
[SunCo] he was my very good friend
[SunCo] his death really shocked me
[SunCo] rip jokey!
[SunCo] our friendship was not w/o clouds
[SunCo] but we were friends
[MG] have you ever thought of going back to the main channels again?
[SunCo] yep
[SunCo] i thought
[SunCo] and in the past
[SunCo] i got back
[SunCo] but years after i just went away from them
[SunCo] i still got bitching from the op's side
[SunCo] but i keep the right
[SunCo] to decide that any time i will go back
[SunCo] every few years i check back
[SunCo] maybe things changed :)
[MG] Some of the op's are also in your channel, how do you feel about that?
[SunCo] we are friends
[SunCo] we have no problems here
[SunCo] we have almost the same rules as like in the main channel
[SunCo] just more friendly
[SunCo] and with their experience they help me
[SunCo] on the channel
[SunCo] and in the collections too
[SunCo] to synch the 2 channels
[MG] it sounds like a really friendly place, what is the main things required in your channel, is that friendship?
[SunCo] hmm
[SunCo] how i tell
[SunCo] the bad order
[SunCo] any can come here
[SunCo] and most of them become a friend of us with time
[SunCo] not the other order
[SunCo] like only our friends can come here
[SunCo] we are too few to behave ugly
[SunCo] btw i never wanted a channel bigger than 30-40 ppls
[MG] There are some special collections which are not in the main channel, and only in your channel, how do you feel when collections migrate over to the main channel?
[SunCo] that is why i stopped many csv
[SunCo] we always had special collections
[SunCo] that was a main reason to have my own channel
[SunCo] to collect on our way
[SunCo] some trigs were banned in tpf
[SunCo] and when they saw they are nice
[SunCo] they got them too
[MG] so the channel is a birthplace for new collections?
[SunCo] yes, new collections
[SunCo] with guys with same taste as mine was
[SunCo] with the migration
[SunCo] i have no real problem
[SunCo] sometimes, i am unable to get the site updates
[SunCo] and i cannot subscribe to all sites i want
[SunCo] sometimes it takes months to update a set
[SunCo] this causes someone to take them over
[SunCo] i have no problem with that
[SunCo] just tell and ask me first
[SunCo] and make as good
[SunCo] or better csv than mine
[MG] You've csv'd for many years, what kind of tools do you use?
[SunCo] the very basic tools only
[SunCo] for a long time, i did not use any spec programs for downloading
[SunCo] many times i downloaded by hand
[SunCo] that gave me many times the extra files i found against the official csv
[MG] Internet Explorer?
[SunCo] yep
[SunCo] explorer
[SunCo] mozilla
[SunCo] and i played with the url-s
[SunCo] of course for the mass dl i used dl managers and site rippers
[SunCo] for csv’ing i used for many, many years The!Checker
[SunCo] now PSC
[MG] What kind of programs?
[SunCo] flashget
[SunCo] offline explorer
[SunCo] total commander
[SunCo] mostly i make a dl list by hand
[SunCo] and excel or batchmaker programs
[SunCo] and then dl it
[SunCo] with flashget or total commander
[SunCo] long time ago i used getright some times
[MG] how about organizing then, any special tools used there?
[SunCo] mainly i organize by hand
[SunCo] in the structure i like
[SunCo] in the most cases i make batch files (.bat files)
[SunCo] they are making the unpack and the dir making and etc
[MG] you introduced the layout of YYYY-MM\DD - title, which is widely used today. Are you proud of that?
[SunCo] hmmm
[SunCo] thanks
[SunCo] i did not know that
[SunCo] no need to be proud
[SunCo] I’ve always used that system
[SunCo] the only way to sort, organize etc a big collection
[SunCo] of course now i know
[SunCo] deep in my heart i'm a proud, a bit
[SunCo] btw i never forced anyone to use my methods
[MG] What kind of advice would you like to pass on to a new guy who want to become a maintainer?
[SunCo] first of all
[SunCo] always watch what you collect
[SunCo] enjoy it
[SunCo] and you can find the bad's, missings and corrupts too
[SunCo] be professional
[SunCo] in the way you collect
[SunCo] nobody likes those who start something
[SunCo] and does it only for few months
[SunCo] and stops
[SunCo] talk with others
[SunCo] to find out about the missing files and problems
[SunCo] nobody can make good csv alone
[SunCo] not even me
[SunCo] and
[SunCo] only do as much
[SunCo] as much you can handle
[SunCo] if you want too much
[SunCo] you will get much less
[SunCo] i hope you understood it
[SunCo] :)
[MG] yes, understood
[MG] anything else you would like to add before we finish?
[SunCo] just thanks to everybody
[SunCo] i wasn't able to do this alone
[SunCo] thanks to those who helped
[MG] anyone in particular you would like to send greetings to?
[SunCo] i don’t want to pick anybody
[SunCo] i like them all
[SunCo] but for those who had to gone
[SunCo] like joki
[MG] well, thanks for taking some time for the interview, have a nice day SunCo
[SunCo] I thank

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Hard Labour of Maintaining






Well, maintaining can be a bitch sometimes, and most often demand quite some of your time. And you have to look out for pitfalls and every other nasty thing a webmaster can pull on you.

But sometimes it can also be easy. Take a look at the screenshot.


What you see is 2 scripted update maintainig scripts, which are hooked into Windows' Task Schedule program (Start -> Accessories -> System Tools). One of the scripts even unzip's the contents after download (if you look closely).

This is just for inspiration and not a production run.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Shopping for CSV's ?






Well, we do not actually go to the local 7/11 for getting a new fresh csv when the old one is worn out and used to the fullest. Instead we can visit places like VG.

So in an ideal world we could just blindly grab any csv and trust that things were in order. But that far from reality.

CSV's have errors, and missing stuff. Comparing csvs posted on usenet with csvs from VG or some other place may be nessary to figure out which is the better.

But in the end, it is most often the case that the csv set which is maintained the longest tend to be the better choice.

So, what is this article all about ?

Answer: "Finding the better csv and csv errors"

To do that you can use a tool like CSV Workshop. And furthermore you can watch a video of how to do it.


Download video: MG.CSVWorkshop.XViD.zip

CSV Workshop has alot of other uses but you should explore them yourself. And bare in mind that the tool is 5 years old and at that point it couldn't handle DVD sized csvs, and still cannot. The size is reported wrong, but the dupechecking still works like a charm.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Making a directory list

Here's a small video example of how anyone can create a list of directories. The example uses some lines from some html pages. It is raw html, which we turn into a nice list.




Download video: UltraEdit.DirectoryLists.XViD.zip